Museum number:

APM 15.086

Subcollection:

porseleinen pijpen

Title:

tabakspijp

Keyword:

sitting bird

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of porcelain with figural bowl, heel marking and short straight insert stem with narrowing end with concentric rings. Bowl seated bird with pointy beak and short tail, sitting on a hand closed to a fist, depicted in the stem. Eyes of the bird pierced for the air supply. Painting with yellow head, red belly, back brown, coloured wings. Head of the bird a brass valve cover with retaining spring and locking ring. Matching buffalo horn stem with an oval-shaped moist bag that halfway screws up to which a s-shaped curved buffalo horn stem with six-sided weighted centre piece, a disc shaped button and a flattened stem end with small button.

Date:

Period 1780 - 1810


Dimensions:

GeneralLength32 cm
BowlHeight6,1 cm
Width2,7 cm
StemLength3 cm
Length total25 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type insteekpijp
Pipe shape figuraal
Materialporselein (ceramiek)
Techniquegegoten ceramiek
Colourwit
Other materialsmessing (metaal), buffelhoorn (dierlijk materiaal)
Finish glazuur, meerkleuren
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContintentEuropa
Region InternationalWest-Europa
CountryDuitsland
Region NationalSaksen-Anhalt
CityVolkstedt
Maker Manufaktur Volkstedt
Acquisition
Year 1996
Provenance Parijs, collectie Bertrand Lazard, 1989-1996
Parijs, Denise Corbier, 1989
Literature
D.H. Duco (Don Duco), Van vorstengeschenk tot volksobject; De historie van de porseleinen tabakspijp. Vormen uit Vuur, Mededelingenblad Nederlandse Vrienden van de Ceramiek, /165, 1998. p 36, afb 7. Dit exemplaar (rechts).
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, permanente presentatie, zaal, vitrine 7, v.a. 2001.

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